XC runners faking injuries epidemic

Yes, get them out running even if they are complaining about an injury. You are the coach, you are GOD!

I suggest a cattle prod.

When I was in high school there were kids on jv that joined the team just because they had friends on the team, a few of them did fake injuries others would just go dick around in the woods.

Can they walk? Do you have a rowing machine? Maybe even a pool (doubtful)? They should be getting aerobic exercise in whatever way does not exacerbate their injury.

Make them aqua job and they will never fake another injury.

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off your rock wrote:

Make them aqua job and they will never fake another injury.

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THIS. Back in high school my school's track team had a coaching change, and after a week of workouts the same group that usually faked injuries started trying to get out of workouts. The new coach--who I credit with basically all of my success--made them do stationary bike intervals for well over 40 minutes. The team got a lot smaller after that.

Pandemic wrote:

others would just go dick around in the woods.

Literally or figuratively?

What do they think this is soccer? Basketball?

If a lot of kids are doing it then I would automatically suspect the coach hasn't stressed easy days and miles into their head enough. Once kids get over that hump, slow down a little, and don't race their workout they tend to enjoy running enough that they will only bail on the really hard days.

SWAZ wrote:

off your rock wrote:

Make them aqua job and they will never fake another injury.

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THIS. Back in high school my school's track team had a coaching change, and after a week of workouts the same group that usually faked injuries started trying to get out of workouts. The new coach--who I credit with basically all of my success--made them do stationary bike intervals for well over 40 minutes. The team got a lot smaller after that.

Agreed. This has solved the problem on our team. Our kids know that being injured means 40-60 min. of cross training interval workouts + 30 min. of strength. It gets the kids that are actually injured the work they need but is tough/boring enough to discourage kids that just want a day off.

If they don't like to run (so they fake injuries), why even bother with them? Kids who don't enjoy the training process will nevet amount to anything.

Ignore these clowns and work with the willing.

It’s the example set by the athletes they idolize like LeBron James and Kevin Durant who think they’re above the team. You would never see a REAL athlete like Ronnie Lott, who would cut off his finger, before letting his team down far. Larry Csonka is crying in heaven, as these entitled kids basically spit on his grave.

Larry Csonka is alive and well, nitwit, and could still bulldoze your ass into next week

Larry Csonka is alive and well and puts on a fishing show up in Alaska and would never cry. He lives in Wasilla across the street from Sarah Palin and could see Russia from his back yard until she moved in and blocked his view. I think you might have meant the late great Merlin Olsen, who was a member of the Fearsome Foursome and also starred in Little House on the Prairie until he died in 2011. They were both tough SOBs (to use the president's term), but they got nothin' on Chuck Norris.

MadDadMAGA wrote:

It’s the example set by the athletes they idolize like LeBron James and Kevin Durant who think they’re above the team. You would never see a REAL athlete like Ronnie Lott, who would cut off his finger, before letting his team down far. Larry Csonka is crying in heaven, as these entitled kids basically spit on his grave.

Your whole post is full of shlt.

coachken wrote:

Is this a problem that all coaches are dealing with? Kids on our team, a competitive well established program, don't want to put in the work in practice. The one's in question spend a lot of time at the trainer doing nothing. These aren't our best scoring runners but our team could be much better if they didn't shy away from the miles and toughened up. are other teams facing similar "injury problems"

No, it's just "one's" like you who have this problem.

Larry Csonka isn't dead! He even has his own fishing show on an outdoor channel. larrycsonka.com.

I came from a good high school program and it's definitely common. I don't think there's much you can do about it. My coach called a few people on it and it only resulted in them hating the coach, even though he was completely right and it was obvious that they just didn't want to work.

We only had one person on my team like that, a small team at that, sadly he was the most talented runner on a already great team, could run a sub 4:30 on almost no training, the rest of us all hated him but dealt with it because he normally was the second guy on the team

off your rock wrote:

Make them aqua job and they will never fake another injury.

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Pool attendant?